and rod rosenstein has been trying to walk a very fine line here. he s the guy overseeing mueller s investigation. he s the guy in charge of it. the house republicans are going to be coming after him to defend the mueller investigation. it s going to be really interesting to see how he handles that, how heesponds to what s going to be hostile questions at tt hearing on thursday. phil, listen, you have a unique perspective here because you have work would the fbi. so what kind of information can struck provide? he can offer some context. you re dealing with an investigation that involves hundreds of people. he made an epically stupid mistake, using a government issued phone. had an affair. not only an affair but to talk about a political candidate in an investigation he was already involved in.
want you to participate in. among all of us, not just me and lisa page, peter strzok, lisa page and the 200 people involved in the investigation, i m going to persuade you to have a massive conspiracy no one else is going to reveal to undermine the president. he made an epic mistake, i don t think he s going to undermine the investigation. michael, let s talk about eric prince now, given access to his phone, computer and special counsel. we know mueller will look at that secret meeting in the seychelles. what is mueller looking to find out? look, mueller is coming to a crucial point in his investigation. i think there s a sense that he s got a couple of months here. if he s got something big to deliver, to deliver it. because, you know, come labor day, i think anything he does after that would be perceived as
convinced themselves that the entire mueller investigation is, you know, fruit from a poisoned tree that originated by biased fbi agents, peter struck being the prime example. andod rosenstein has been trying to walk a very fine line here. he s the guy overseeing mueller s investigation. he s the guy in charge of it. the house republicans are going to be coming after him to defend the mueller investigation. it s going to be really interesting to see how he handles that, how he responds to what s going to be hostile questions at that hearing on thursday. phil, listen, you have a unique perspective here because you have work would the fbi. so what kind of information can struck provide? he can offer some context. yore dealing with an investigation that involves hundreds of people. he made an epically stupid
because, you know, come labor day, i think anything he does after that would be perceived as trying to do something on the, you know, the eve of an election. given all the criticism of what jim comey did, mueller s not going to fall into that trap. so, you know, we re at a crucial point. now, the eric prince story, you know, it seems in one sense a big tangential to the core issues, to what extent it took place after the election. to what extent was that part of some sort of conspiracy involving the russians and the trump campaign? you know, there s still a lot of murkiness to this. and certainly prince s answers that he s given so far have been inconsistent with some of the testimony that mueller s gotten from others about what he knew about who he was meeting with, that he was going to be meeting with a russian there.
people understand how many people would have been involved in this investigation, hundreds. among all of us, not just me and lisa page, peter struck, lisa page and the 200 people involved in the investigation, i m going to persuade you to have a massive conspiracy no one else is going to reveal to undermine the president. he maden epic mistake, i don t think he s going to undermine the investigation. michael, let s talk about eric prince now, given access to his phone, computer and special counsel. we know it s supposed to be a secret meeting. what is mueller looking to find out? look, mueller is coming to a crucial point in his investigation. i think there s a sense that he s got a couple of months here. if he s got something big to deliver, to deliver it.